Animal Welfare Professionals

Hello.

  I am the Animal control officer for my small town in the quiet corner of CT, and I am still having budget issues since my last post- gotta love politics and tight wallets.  So to overcome certain hurdles, I am forming a non profit for the animal shelter, taking numerous cat courses about community cat programs such as barn cat, working cat, and business cats., i will be holding education workshops for dog and cat owners,  and getting involved in every department that I can.   I am trying to become more a resource and offer services to the town instead of just enforcement, and I am hoping to unify the first responders a little more with training opportunites because I come from both fields- EMS and animal welfare. 

I am looking for suggestions on how to market and operate a Rainbow Bridge Memorial Park fundraiser with plaques,memorials, bricks and planks for purchase.  I am very new to capital campaigns and fundraising so any advice would be appreciated.  The Rec dept approached me with the idea and I love it, just not sure how to start it.  Thanks 

#FundraisingandDevelopment

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Briana Bardier
Animal Control Officer, Dept Head
Thompson Animal Control
CT
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Briana, great idea and congrats on all your hard work. Have you received the 501(c)(3) yet for the nonprofit? When you do, I think a good way to do a fundraiser like this is through Zeffy. It's a nonprofit platform and you can create a store that will sell each of the items - a brick, plaque, etc. I like it because they do not take any fees. If the shelter itself can receive monetary donations, you could also do a simple Google form until you are able to sign-up for a nonprofit account. As far as marketing, obviously flyers in the shelter, library, rec center, does your city have a newsletter they could put it in? Nextdoor, Facebook... You might also be able to get local scout troops to help. This sounds like it could be a good Eagle Scout project.

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Sarah Fuqua
Director
The Bobo Fund
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